Bhavani Shankar R <bh...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Stéphane Graber <stgra...@ubuntu.com> >wrote: >> On 12/28/2012 06:37 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>> The existence of >>> >http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.5.11ubuntu12.10.1.dsc >>> was recently mentioned #ubuntu-devel. This seems to be in direct >>> contradiction of >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppReviewBoard/Review/Guidelines - in >>> particular "Apps should not be forks or updates of existing >applications in >>> the Ubuntu archive (main/universe/etc). ". >>> >>> Who was this discussed with outside the ARB before it was uploaded? > As it >>> stands, lintian will be upgraded to this version in any quantal >system where >>> extras has not been disabled, so it has potential to affect >developers that >>> have no relation to extras or the ARB. >>> >>> Scott K >> >> I can't remember seeing any discussion about this and it's a clear >> violation of what was approved by the Technical Board in regard to >the >> extras repository. >> >> I've removed the lintian package from the ARB PPA and that removal >> should be propagated to the extras archive in the next hour or so. >> >> I'd appreciate if someone from the ARB could explain what was the >> reasoning behind this upload so that we can make sure whatever >problem >> it was trying to address indeed gets addressed but without causing >> problem with the main archive. >> > >/me stepping in for the ARB here as I am directly co-ordinating with >Niels from debian regarding the arb-lintian. > > >Firstly sorry for the version mismatch that happened. The whole idea >was to integrate arb checks in lintian of which major namespace and >/opt requirement integrated in lintian. Will redirect any lintian >uploads here on to the staging PPA to avoid any problems > >Apologies again. > >Regards,
Does that mean you uploaded it to extras by accident or intentionally? Scott K -- Ubuntu-release mailing list Ubuntu-release@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release